Linda Collins is Education Librarian at the UNC-CH Health Sciences Library. Her prior work experience includes two years as an Information Specialist at the Institute for Biotechnology Information in Research Triangle Park and seven years as Internet Resources Coordinator/Reference Librarian at the Duke University Medical Center Library. Linda also taught the "Internet Applications" course for two semesters at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-CH. She received her B.A. in History from the State University of New York at Binghamton and her MSLS from UNC-CH.
Joanne Gard Marshall joined the School of Information & Library Science at the UNC-CH as Dean and Professor in January 1999. Previously, she was a faculty member at the University of Toronto, where she taught courses in health sciences information resources, management of corporate and other specialized information centers, research methods and online information retrieval. Dr. Marshall is the recipient of numerous awards in medical librarianship. In 1998 she received the John Cotton Dana Award from the Special Libraries Association in 1998. In addition to her Ph.D. in Community Health, Joanne also holds at Master of Health Science Degree from McMaster University and a Master of Library Science degree from McGill University. She is an avid gardener and when not at work may be found exploring the challenges of gardening below the Mason-Dixon line.
Kate McGraw is currently Information Services Coordinator for the UNC-CH Health Sciences Library. Prior to coming to HSL, Kate worked as a reference librarian in the Business, Science, and Technology Department of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. Pratt serves as Maryland's State Library Resource Center, and her duties there included providing business reference training to librarians around the state.
Eric Lease Morgan is the Networked Technologies Development Librarian at the North Carolina State University Libraries. In the past his work has focused on the creation of intelligent front-ends to existing information systems. His current work is now focused on the creation of information systems themselves and exploring ways to repurpose existing information resources for education and learning. In his spare time he has been seen folding defective floppy disks into intricate origami flora and fauna.
Derek A. Rodriguez holds a B.A. English from Duke University and received his MSLS from UNC Chapel Hill. He was networking Systems Librarian at the Academic Affairs Library,UNC-CH from 1994 to 1998. Currently he is the Systems Librarian at Davidson College in Davidson, N.C. In addition to his Systems responsibilities at Davidson, Derek is involved in various Information Literacy projects.
Carol Tenopir is Professor of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and author of the regular Library Journal column "Online Databases." She has recently received the 2000 ALISE Award for Teaching Excellence, and in 1993 she was the 1993 winner of the ASIS Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award. In 1995 she was the recipient with co-investigator Donald W. King of the Special Libraries Association's $20,000 Steven I. Goldspeil Memorial Research Grant to study "The Impact of Electronic Publishing on the Special Library in the Future." Dr. Tenopir came to the University of Tennessee after a distinguished tenure at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, School of Library and Information Studies.